The Litmus Test: Volume II - Orange Crush
Newburgh Brewing Company
- From:
- Newburgh Brewing Company
- New York, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.12 | pDev: 0.97%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 28, 2019
- Added:
- May 30, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Part of Newburgh Brewing Company's Quarterly Sour Ale Series. Volume II: "Orange Crush" is a fruited and sour beer brewed with oranges and orange juice producing a sour style beer taste. It is also part of the Brewery's "Sour Ales" series.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by digitalflood from New York
4.14/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.14/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
L: Poured into a pint glass. Hazy orange mimosa like color. Good initial head draws back to good lacing. Head foam sticks to the glass as your drink it. Good retention.
S: Smells of orange juice, grapefruit sour notes, and citrus. Hint of pine and pineapple.
T: Sour Patch Kid like tartness immediately on the front of the palette. Lots of orange juice, grapefruit, and lemons. Mid-palette comes to orange, mangoes, and grapefruit. Hint of wheat and biscuit. Back palette is dry and souring. Like eating sour candy. Lots of tart lemons, grapefruit, and kumquats. Lingering sour after taste of kumquats and orange juice.
F: A bit overpowering at first sip with a initial puckering effect. Overtime though your palette adjusts and you get a good thickness to the beer that thins to a refreshing albeit tart mouthfeel.
O: Very good. Strong tartness that reduces to a very drinkable fruit beer with sour notes. A little strong on the stomach after 2-3 beers, but still surprisingly drinkable. No alcohol hint. Very crushable once you get past the tartness. If you like sours this is a definite must try. It doesn't have the traditional wild ale funk or off note complexities of cheese or horse blanket-- and while I may like that this is certainly a more approachable beer from someone new to sours. The sourness is directly acquired through the citrus fruiting and not through spontaneous fermentation so again that makes it more approachable for most. If you like tart and puckering this is your beer. 4 out of 5 overall.
May 30, 2019S: Smells of orange juice, grapefruit sour notes, and citrus. Hint of pine and pineapple.
T: Sour Patch Kid like tartness immediately on the front of the palette. Lots of orange juice, grapefruit, and lemons. Mid-palette comes to orange, mangoes, and grapefruit. Hint of wheat and biscuit. Back palette is dry and souring. Like eating sour candy. Lots of tart lemons, grapefruit, and kumquats. Lingering sour after taste of kumquats and orange juice.
F: A bit overpowering at first sip with a initial puckering effect. Overtime though your palette adjusts and you get a good thickness to the beer that thins to a refreshing albeit tart mouthfeel.
O: Very good. Strong tartness that reduces to a very drinkable fruit beer with sour notes. A little strong on the stomach after 2-3 beers, but still surprisingly drinkable. No alcohol hint. Very crushable once you get past the tartness. If you like sours this is a definite must try. It doesn't have the traditional wild ale funk or off note complexities of cheese or horse blanket-- and while I may like that this is certainly a more approachable beer from someone new to sours. The sourness is directly acquired through the citrus fruiting and not through spontaneous fermentation so again that makes it more approachable for most. If you like tart and puckering this is your beer. 4 out of 5 overall.
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